Irish VC group Fountain Healthcare Partners raises €118m
Group beats €100m target and intends to invest the bulk of the fund in Europe and US
Paschal meets Apple bigwigs as AIB seeks help-to-buy scheme extension
Seen and heard: PwC to review children’s hospital costs, ESB may offload Dublin depot
Seroba takes part in $45m funding round for Endotronix
Irish VC firm backs Chicago-based heart disease medtech start-up for second time
Irish VC fund Seroba could make €100m on Prexton Therapeutics sale
Seroba co-led a €29m Series B round for the company which was acquired late last week
Is Ireland missing out on blockbuster drug discovery?
Given our medical research expertise and a rise in clinical trials, Ireland is missing its chance to enter the $272bn ‘biologic’ drugs market
An Irish immunologist joins Newton and Boyle as jolly good fellows
Prof Luke O’Neill has been made a fellow of the Royal Society for his innovative work on the human immune system
TCD and UCD come together to create €60m start-up fund
Other investors include Atlantic Bridge, European Investment Fund, AIB and EI
Trinity ‘spin out’ tests drug for cancer
Dublin biopharma company embarks on series of cancer drug therapy trials
Irish firms raised €285m from venture capital investors in 2013
Warning on slowdown in activity as venture capital firms need to replenish funds from private sector
Blocking the immune system aims to improve kidney transplants success rate
Opsona Therapeutics tests immune-dampening to ward of dangerous inflamation after transplants. Claire O’Connell finds out about the science behind it
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